The format of "columns" is incorrect for what you want to achieve. These
columns are working correctly, as in "newspaper" columns.
What you need, as discussed by Ms Barnhill and Mr Robbins, is a Table; text
will not jump from one cell to another. With the required number of columns
and rows, with the rows sized to an "exact" size so they wont enlarge as more
text is entered.
Be aware that you can still have as much text in a cell as you like, it just
wont be viewed/printed if it continues beyond the set-size of the cell.
See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm
Hope this helps
DeanH
"wilchong via OfficeKB.com" wrote:
I see. Just forget my old question. May be let me start my question from a
simple one.
Right now, I want to divide a A4 page into two columns. So, I just click
€śformat€ť from tool bar and choose two columns. In this two columns page,
there are NOT independent. What I mean is that the text will continue to
second column of the same page. OK, right now, I want these two columns are
independent, text cannot continue to second column. Another word, I want to
fix the size of these two columns.
I wish my explanation now is more unambiguous.
Many thanks,
Wilchong
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Maybe. Perhaps I read it wrong, but I got the impression there would be
three rows, two in the top half and one in the bottom.
In the Table Properties dialog, you can fix the row heights and the column
widths.
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Many thanks,
Wilchong.
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